About Our

The photographs and images that you see on this website, as well as those edited into many of our interviews and interview clips, derive from an extensive collection of photographs and associated historical materials donated by interview subjects and others in the local dance community. These are most commonly analog material items, which CDHP has digitized and returned to donors.
 

These include digitized playbills, posters, media clippings, and other ephemera; choreography notes, dance company records, and other dance-related writings. 
 

We are grateful to the following individuals and entities from within the Chicago dance community (listed alphabetically) who have generously donated items for digitization and granted CDHP rights to usage:

Barbara Atkins Ruhman, Audience Architects, Cristin Carole, Stephanie Clemens, Lou Conte, Pam Crutchfield, Jan Erkert, Patti Eylar, James Dybas, Maureen Janson Heintz, Jennifer Girard, Charles Grass, Joel Hall Dancers & Center, Ben Hodge, Gail Kalver, Maggie Kast, Mary Kay Lackritz, Rika Lin, Luna Negra Dance Theater, Donna Mandel, Lucia Mauro, Nancy G. Moore, Shirley Mordine, Chuck Osgood, Marilyn Ruekberg, Anne Scheetz, Peggy Sutton, Eric Trules, Charlie Vernon, Patti Vickerman, Laura Wade, and Mark Yonally.